ETF comparison
VGSH vs VUSB
US Treasury (Short) vs US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VGSH and VUSB would leave roughly 1.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VGSH is 7 bps cheaper than VUSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for VUSB.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with VGSH vs VUSB.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In VGSH | In VUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.35% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.81% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
Only in VGSH
89 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.29%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
Only in VUSB
1,279 total- United States Treasury Bill 4.19%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The 0.58%
- Regions Bank/Birmingham AL 0.51%
- US Bancorp 0.50%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 0.49%
- Truist Bank 0.44%
- Westlake Flooring Master Trust 0.44%
- DLLAD 2024-1 LLC 0.43%
- UBS Group AG 0.41%
- Bank of Montreal 0.40%
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- VGSH vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 0.4%
- VGSH vs PULS · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF 0.2%
- VGSH vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGSH vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
More comparisons with VUSB
- VUSB vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 0.9%
- VUSB vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 0.7%
- VUSB vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 0.6%
- VUSB vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.5%
- VUSB vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 0.4%
- VUSB vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 0.2%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.